China not offering 'significant concessions' during trade talks

15/02/2019|7min

The US Studies Centre’s James Brown says China is not offering any significant concessions as trade talks between the two superpowers continue in Beijing.
Senior US officials are speaking with their Chinese counterparts to create a new free trade agreement, in a bid to de-escalate the tariff war brewing between the two nations.
If no agreement is struck by March 1, the US will increase tariffs from 10 to 25 per cent on Chinese products coming into the US, which is likely to spark retaliatory action from the Xi government.
Mr Brown told Sky News China is not offering any leeway on contentious issues like theft of IP and reciprocal access to its economy, which is undermining the talks.